Surgeons, what was your "OH CR*P" moment?

[@deredd04]

Story 13. Your narration did do the story justice. I felt it when you said “GODLESS BASTARD” when the op reached for the empty box of peppermint oil.

[@PrograError]

that _GODLESS BASTARD_ better hike out of town after that and kept that into the 6 feet...

[@paolavillicana1333]

That line absolutely KILLED me🤣🤣🤣

[@catpoke9557]

The Swamps of Dagobah story is a good example of why you shouldn't assume someone is faking their pain. She was DEFINITELY in a lot of pain with a whole tunnel of necrosis in her digestive tract.

[@Lizardman-d5j]

That is one crazy ass story.

[@catpoke9557]

@@Lizardman-d5j Ha, was the pun intended?

[@Lizardman-d5j]

@@catpoke9557 hehe yeah

[@catpoke9557]

@@Lizardman-d5jNice one

[@Michalosnup]

Basic rule: Never lie to your doctor or lawyer

[@PrimeCypher]

Better rule: Do not lie to a professional. In any field.

[@raetemple9167]

​@@PrimeCypherDepends on the field tbh

[@PrimeCypher]

@@raetemple9167 Tell me one professional where its a good idea.

[@skylerlightning4620]

@@PrimeCypher Any profession that have keep people calm that know people has died and need keep them calm to prevent more death.

[@transsnack]

Tell the cops nothing, tell the EMTs everything.

[@LisaVGG]

Tell the narrator that his telling of the Swamps of Dagobah story was done justice, cause my lord that must’ve been hard to read even a second time

[@slc1161]

The reality is, despite all the education health care workers receive, every single person has a bit of variance in their vessels, organs, skin, etc. We say it’s an art backed by science.

[@permanentvisitor2460]

That's why medicine acknowledges that it's a practice. Nothing is standard, so it's just as much art as science.

[@lpfan4491]

Science effectively is an art. A highly restricted art, but still. You have to always be on the look out for irregular data that could be an indication of undiscovered layers to the mechanisms at play and sometimes you even have to get creative to even figure out how a translates to b and how you can potentially invoke that reaction manually to arrive at c.

[@transsnack]

The joys of a wet science. Anything related to life has rules, but a lot of exceptions.

[@blackwidor]

They don't think these people are people . Disgusting

[@michaelbujaki2462]

@@lpfan4491 That's correct. Fun Story: When Mercury was discovered and plotted, scientists discovered that it was orbiting about 0.788 seconds per year too slowly. This caused scientists of the time to assume that another inner planet, Vulcan, was to blame for slowing Mercury just as Mercury was responsible for slowing down Venus. Some early maps of the solar system even showed the planet "Vulcan". Astronomers searched for years to find Vulcan. In the 1930's, Einstein came up with the theory of relativity which perfectly explained the anomaly of Mercury's orbit. However, it wasn't until we began exploring space in person that we were able to prove Einstein correct.

[@paragonca9736]

This was the wrong video to listen to over my lunch break.

[@landon2plants]

Yes

[@edenofeve]

Literally doing the same thing and he lost me at 13:00

[@RedK5]

@@edenofevethat’s where I ate breakfast at. Still surprised she’s alive

[@ididitoutofspite986]

​@@edenofevei almost threw up

[@Toot.95]

Right. The added details of after birth & maple syrup was a tad much 🫴🏼

[@ismae-rienne4991]

For some levity: Im a woman. When i had surgery done to remove my gallbladder, i had the all male team. They kept referring to themselves as the Chippendales

[@ivettegutierreztorres3211]

And were they cute or hunky?

[@ismae-rienne4991]

@@ivettegutierreztorres3211 yep

[@TheNormExperience]

The patient needs 5 CC’s! **Out walk the Cholecystectomy Chippendales** 😂

[@appleslice4412]

I wasn't expecting the "Swamps of Dagobah" story to be snuck in

[@SkyFyre2435]

I heard "one of the greatist reddit comments in history," and then "pararectal abscess" and immediately knew it was the Swamps of Dagobah.

[@stingmon93]

that story was literally a "oh Holy Crap." moment.

[@darkstarr984]

I have a vague idea that poor woman was in absolute hell because I’ve had a pelvic abscess that I needed major abdominal surgery for, and in the week leading up to it, I would have all of about 30 minutes, 30 minutes after taking 100 mg Tramadol and 1000 mg Tylenol, in which I was able to get up, walk to the bathroom, downstairs to the kitchen, back upstairs to wash and flush my drains, and then back to my bed to lay back down, before the pain started climbing up to where I was sobbing and almost unable to move again. Basically going from an 8 to a 6, then back to 8. I would repeat that process every 4 to 6 hours, and finally my PCP called my surgeon and sent me to the hospital because it turns out that much pain is actually a really bad sign and the fact I was taking painkillers before getting my wound vac changed was masking my fevers from visiting nurses.

[@rxbiluhvrp]

@@SkyFyre2435I knew it from “general surgery call”

[@SinNombreYQueWea]

@sydspuppets "Which one was that - nevermind" funniest shit ever

[@misaudark6338]

Didn't think I'd hear the "Swamps of dagobah" story in this lmao

[@uchytjes10]

Swamps of Dagobah, the jolly rancher, and the coconut Fleshlight. All legendary horror posts.

[@misaudark6338]

​@@uchytjes10 Yep... not to mention, poop knife and poop scissors.... botfly girl aswell

[@BabyyiJustwanaDancee]

Lmao same when it started I instantly knew

[@ericasnow9022]

Oh...no...

[@nannostanfr]

Timestamp???

[@acatnamedm4529]

Dang it, DO NOT EAT before surgery. You can die. In eye surgery, you can go blind if you don't die. EDIT: you did a really good job with the medical terminology

[@DelphineDenton]

I get that they don't want to put patients completely out during eye surgery, but paralytics would have been a huge improvement in that moment.

[@Kittygameplayz]

patient: yup uhuh yup doc yup i didnt eat! doc: ok doc: good thing you didnt because otherwise you'll throw up during the procedure and food might get stuck inside you! thank gosh you didn't eat! patient: doc... i have something to tell you... (cut to the doctor screaming *WHAT?!?!*)

[@danniellesloane]

I worked in a hospital (admin, not a nurse or dr) I remember a young girl almost dying during my time there because her father felt bad for her because she was hungry. He stuck her food without informing anyone, even though she was nil by mouth, and she almost aspirated during surgery. It was pretty traumatic for the staff that had to deal with the emergency in surgery, and the nurses doing her after care

[@SkyFyre2435]

If this was in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if that patient later tried to sue the eye surgeon for malpractice.

[@lemax6865]

@@DelphineDenton If you don't put someone fully under, you don't use paralytics. Paralytics mean the patient will be unable to breathe, so you have to intubate.

[@dawnbunten4853]

The redhead thing is so true. My husband has red hair and has woken up in the middle of surgery before. He has to get more than the max amount of pain meds

[@dorabrooks76]

I'm a redhead, too, and to complicate things further, I was actually on the medication they used for sedation for my procedure already for chronic pain issues. In my pre-op appointment my doctor chuckled and told me, "we're going to need to give you a _crap_ ton of meds to get you under!" It was pretty funny, especially because he was usually a very serious guy.

[@jocelynmartin1572]

Red hair runs on both sides of my family. The weird thing is that I react to anesthesia like a ginger.even thought I am not a carrottop like my dad. I have to warn dentists and surgeons. I have a full memory of cataract surgery ,including the conversations between the staff and the surgeons requests for suture and instruments. I told her later and I had everything correct. So I ask doctors to give their best guess but keep assessing for a need for more, or I'm going to start to talk and that might be startling.

[@ryutenshi3190]

Born a redhead, and I have to tell dentists every time I go in for a cleaning (I have VERY sensitive gums) that the numbing wash they give me, that’s supposed to last at least an hour, will wear off in about 20 minutes or so. It gets even better when it’s a cavity filling…

[@meuanglao7]

@@ryutenshi3190 mine wears off before they even come back in the room c,: i have a very high pain tolerance but it's still weird to be able to feel everything they'll readminister once or twice but they always friggin walk out of the room to give it time to take. it takes immediately for me and wears off in like 10 minutes bruh just get the job done i am uncomfortable :^)

[@meuanglao7]

when i got my root canal done they numbed basically my entire head and neck. that one lasted a lil longer

[@ivettegutierreztorres3211]

We went in for a hysterectomy ( getting the uterus out) of a 35ish patient, an hour and a half surgery), sonogram said myomatosis ( bumps of muscle in the uterine wall) , we open up, and it's cancer all over the abdominal cavity, about to close the bladder and the colon, 10 hours later, we had cleared out what we could. Thanks to that the patient lived longer, and more comfortably

[@dragoncsorceressofawesomne5721]

Story 11 is now the latest reason i am never getting pregnant. This uterus is closed for business

[@IsaacDoctorKleiner]

Same, oh also because I’m a guy

[@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

Lol same

[@Allantitan]

Story 11 is just one of the reasons why I’m glad I’m a guy

[@CheesusChrist-px1ok]

@@Allantitan I mean, women don't have to get pregnant

[@Allantitan]

@@CheesusChrist-px1ok I know

[@slc1161]

People don’t understand about the food and fluid restrictions are for their safety.

[@darkstarr984]

Yeah. It’s even stupider than me being so convinced I would become addicted to heroin I refused to use a pain pump after major abdominal surgery. Using extreme painkillers like that as intended genuinely helps people recover, like how not eating or drinking before a surgery keeps them from aspirating.

[@inconsistentlysleepy]

People don't understand that *anything* doctors tell you to do is for your safety. Listen to them, people.

[@tracywilliams7523]

12:05 hey, I'm not a chronic drug abuser....I just have endometriosis where NOTHING touches my pain except anesthesia....doctors tend to think I'm an addict 💀 .....nope, just an incurable disease 😭😭

[@janerecluse4344]

They *can* D&C that tissue out for you. There are treatments, just nobody talks about them because misogyny thinks women are meant to suffer. Don't accept it.

[@only1one1me]

Story 32: That’s so dirty that they had OP sign a liability release wager while they’re drugged up.

[@loganroufs9705]

I think she can still sue because she was in an altered state and legally cannot give legal consent

[@RedK5]

@@loganroufs9705but isn’t it too late for that

[@jesarablack1661]

@@loganroufs9705 And was under 18, yeah all that paperwork has no legal weight, it was purely a scare tactic

[@slc1161]

My first oh crap moment. Final semester of nursing school. I was in my team leading/ advanced care rotation. I was assigned 5 patients. One of my patients was going for a bronchoscope to have a biopsy for probable lung cancer. I had just finished report and decided to check him first, since he was scheduled to go early. Walked in his room to find him dead. No heart beat, no breathing. I hit the code blue button and jump on the bed and start CPR. Ironically, I had been a CPR instructor for about 6 years then. As I’m waiting for the code team to assemble and take over, another student, first year, walks into the room, screams, then runs out. My nursing instructor had arrived now and I quickly told her to go after the other student. The code team came and though we coded him for a long time, he didn’t survive. I found out later that the student was his granddaughter and she was just coming by to check on him and encourage him before his procedure. I felt awful when I heard this. Can’t imagine routinely checking on someone to find them being resuscitated.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Oh no!!!!!!

[@wolfwise1135]

The Friday before the surgeon goes on vacation is a real thing. There are studies done showing that patients who had surgery on Friday have worse outcomes than those done earlier in the week.

[@nicholaschelm]

Not a surgeon but I had brain surgery done less than a decade ago. My neurosurgeon was an amazing doctor from Milan and did my procedure to alleviate brain pressure due to a chiari type 2 malformation. Surgery went off without a hitch, I woke up in ICU with a splitting headache, and went home after 2 days. Months later at my post surgery appointment, my neurosurgeon proceeds to tell me that during the procedure, my brain was pulling up my spinal cord and he was making sure that my brain didn't pull too much during the first hour of surgery. In short, if my doctor didn't have a mental "Oh crap!"moment to immediately stop my spinal cord from being pulled, I would have been paralyzed from the neck down. Again, this is 3 months post-op that he's telling me all of this... ... My family sent him and his staff Christmas cards and Starbucks cards that year until he retired last year

[@PrograError]

my arse puckered on that spinal cord part...

[@nicholaschelm]

@@PrograError Yeah there are times when I feel my scar tingle when I think about it

[@frayed_end5]

somebody tell 32 that, being underage, that signature was invalid legally speaking, and he can sue for god knows how much, asuming it hasn't been that long, and assuming the signature wasn't a parent's

[@michaelbujaki2462]

I thought the same thing. Well, my thought was more like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWXChIaomtenrdk.

[@heatheral-hammadi3046]

Oh shit!! You are so right! So many things to sue for!!

[@zoelak1285]

I hope they sue and name the hospital this took place in so it doesn’t happen to anyone else

[@slc1161]

Oh crap moment was me as the patient. Critical care nurse. Was supposed to have routine cataract surgery. Already in the OR getting sedated, and thank God, my surgeon was on top of things. I had to get a special order lens because my vision is so bad. Turns out they ordered the wrong lens at the hospital. I’d never seen this surgeon ever blow up until then. He literally was ready to cut my eye open. Second oh crap moment. Working a cardiac arrest in the ER, trauma patient. All of a sudden another nurse started wheezing and collapses on the floor in respiratory arrest. She was having a latex allergic reaction. You can develop it from repeated exposure to latex. So we had to run another code on my colleague. She survived. Trauma died, unfortunately. Third oh crap moment. 85 year old poor guy from a nursing home. Developed what is called Fornier’s gangrene. His scrotum and testicles had rotted away from gas gangrene. We got him after surgery. His testes were completely uncovered because all the skin and tissue had to be removed. The smell! Absolutely the worst thing I’ve smelled in my 40 + years as a nurse. Much like the perirectal abscess story. We all loaded peppermint oil in our masks. It didn’t help. We couldn’t spend more than ten minutes each because it was so bad. We had his door pulled shut but the whole unit, 16 beds, stunk of this man’s gangrene. We had peppermint oil in every room, in every mask. Nothing helped. We couldn’t close the critical care unit, so we had to just deal with it. Fortunately most of the patients in the unit were sedated and ventilated. He remained alive for another week until sepsis overwhelmed him. Fourth oh crap moment. Homeless bilateral amputee with huge crater of a bedsore on his tailbone. Think you can see the bone and tissue, as well as pus and maggots. Got him as a cardiac arrest from ER. He’s on a ventilator and knocked out. Turned him on his side to assess the bedsore from prolonged sitting in a wheelchair. Started irrigating a ton of maggots using peroxide when bags with white powder start falling out, like the bags that are sold with illegal drugs. He had packed this crater with about a kilo and a half of cocaine. We had to dig all this stuff out and turn over to the police.

[@AlexandriaFranklin-xv6rp]

All I can say to all that is WOW. Especially that last one, like dude you have a hole in your body caused by dead flesh and maggots and you pack it with bags of cocaine? Dude absolutely did not care.

[@gaelstrarai]

Oh god.....

[@Damy-t4v]

Oh my God. Mad props to you to managing to pull through that.

[@e.e.strickland4654]

Not a doctor, I’m the patient. I’m pretty confident my “oh crap” is now in books, and you’ll see why! I have a bone disease in my wrist, one that doesn’t get better. Like ever. No exaggerating, I had a dying bone. Because of this I was having a radial shortening (an arm bone was pushing on my dying bone). So, in the surgery, one of the two arm bones you have (the thicker one) is being cut into two pieces, one bit is sawed down, and they’re put back together and held in place with hardware to grow back into one bone. Afterwards I had one cast, it’s checked again, and then another cast. My surgery was in January and I got the final cast off in June or July. It was an airtight cast and I live in Arizona (where our summers can be as hot as 120°F and can start as early as May). I was itching that thing like there was no tomorrow and everyone just brushed it off because of course it’s itchy. They take the cast off… my doctor’s assistant literally said “oh… my… god!” and ran out of the room. She tried to get the doctor in but he was seeing another patient and basically said “take a photo and show me later!” My cast went from my knuckles to two inches below my elbow. The entire top of my arm was caked in such a bad heat rash that it was the texture of reptile scales. Around my suture was an allergic reaction to the medical tape I was told I was allergic to right before going into surgery. An allergic reaction so bad it looked like a cartoon witch’s boil covered face. For those who don’t know: heat rashes look like chicken pox. They’re harmless little red bumps but itch like a mofo. They go away when left alone… when there’s air flow. All of this for a surgery that failed before December even hit. So in May of the next year I’m getting a PRC (they remove the entire lower tier of your wrist’s bones). I’m in a different city, different building, in fact everything but who my dr was is different. I’m in pre-op, apparently the first to be seen, and there’s two nurses (one man, one woman) and they’re just chilling with me before I get taken back. Because I’m the only one back there, they start asking about why I’m in there. I tell them about my disease and what happened with the heat rash from the first surgery. Never seen these people in my life, but both say, in unison, “THAT WAS YOU?!?!?!” Remember that photo my doctor asked for? It’s apparently been making some rounds. And I assume it’s for all the wrong reasons because he now 100% refuses to cast my arm ever again, even if I break anything in this arm 😂 I’m confident if they could, they would’ve bypassed “oh crap” and gone straight to “oh 💩!” Everyone who brushed off my arm itching sure stayed quiet after that!!!

[@mustwereallydothis]

How can anything signed under those conditions possibly be considered legally binding? He was in absolute agony, exhausted and heavily drugged.

[@mustwereallydothis]

Oh, and he was also not of legal age in most countries. I wonder if he even bothered to consult a lawyer

[@Fakenamelance]

It wouldn't, any lawyer, even one whose sole education was KZbin videos, could tear through that like wet toilet paper. Normal waivers are already fairly weak, one that was signed under such circumstances would be overridden with ease.

[@blackosprey2219]

Yeahhhh that is a textbook "voidable due to lack of capacity" situation right there. You probably wouldn't even have to go to court to get that settled.

[@jessh5310]

Every time I go to hospital it is a " Oh crap" moment for some poor doctor. I had 3 kidneys, 2 livers and crazy pipe connections. Even shoulder repair work got a audience. Wrongly positioned blood vessels and tendons. Sorry doctors....

[@persephonehades7547]

The fact you could literally donate a kidney and liver and still be alive amazes me.

[@maggiemidnight8957]

​@@persephonehades7547 I think technically they can donate 2 kidneys and be find, I could be wrong but I remember hearing that you only need 1 kidney to survive

[@oliverer3]

...wh-where did you manage to find all the space for that stuff? O_O

[@persephonehades7547]

@@maggiemidnight8957 Only need 1 to survive, but your diet needs to be mindful at that point. I should've reworded to "donate a kidney and liver and still live normally/without restrictions" lol

[@apollograyling-hastur3995]

@@maggiemidnight8957tell that to the Chinese man who sold a kidney for a dumb reason (I think it was to buy some stupid materialistic thing he could’ve gotten by just working hard for it) and then like 8 years later had his other kidney fail literally only because of the stress on his body of having one kidney, and now lives on dialysis because he isn’t a candidate for a transplant

[@somethinunameit637]

31:32 not a doc but have some in my family. They told me that a patient is much calmer when receiving a painful treatment if they tell the patient what to expect. "it's gonna hurt like a 🤬 but it will feel better when it's healed" just makes the patient have a higher pain tolerance

[@That_Nightmare]

This is true. Always ask if something is going to hurt because they cannot lie to you about it. It helps to know if the pain you're feeling is normal or if it's something you need to tell them about.

[@nickisuhl]

That's what I do with my kids, even for stuff like vaccines. I do tell them it will hurt, it will feel like they're not taking the needle out for a bit, and it might burn, but it will prevent them from horrible deseases, and they will also get ice cream. 😅

[@leokoogle3055]

imagine having your gums nicked at the dentist and you end up dying from it 💀 that's fckn crazy dawg

[@dorabrooks76]

Oral health is actually really, really connected to one's overall health. For example, I was born with a heart murmur (a tiny hole in my heart that eventually closed as I grew up) that normally didn't cause me any issues. However, any time I needed dental work, including checkups and cleanings, I had to go on antibiotics just in case because if my gums were nicked (almost guaranteed) and there was infection it could travel to my heart and kill me. Crazy, eh? I truly believe dental should be covered with regular health insurance.

[@lcoq19]

My son's a ginger and I was soo worried about the redhead gene for anesthesia resistance when he had dental surgery under general anesthesia to remove 4 teeth he broke off at the gums when he was a little over a year old and fell running with a toy truck. He's speech-delayed and was just a couple weeks shy of 4 and he couldn't really talk enough to say if anything wasn't okay at that time. He did just fine though, and they didn't say he had any issues. The kid has the craziest pain tolerance I've ever seen though. The next day, you'd never even know he'd had surgery. I gave him pain meds for a few days anyway, just in case, but he never seemed like he was hurting at all. He's basically Superman. 😊

[@tatkkyo9911]

A release signed while high on meds is worthless

[@boostues]

im drawing whle listening and stopped before asking out loud "why is the swamps of degobah here?"

[@jordanr.2120]

I'm surprised the OP of story 28 didn't know that phantom appendix pain can sometimes show up on the opposite side even when the appendix is in the normal place. That would be the more likely explanation for someone complaining of appendix pain on the left side than all the organs being reversed would be.

[@GhostBear3067]

First story: it used to be printed in the labor and delivery section of paramedic textbooks "it is bad form to drop the baby".

[@simonederobert1612]

Retired from almost 40 years first as a nurse on Ortho/Neuro with flashbacks to my own toddler ortho surgeries, then as an RN on a Tertiary Care center in L&D with high-risk patients referred from all over the state, then as a Certified Nurse Midwife in various practices. Boy, did these 'OH CR*P' moments ring true! Some of which were - Been There, Done That moments. Glad I am now retired.

[@Sammy888]

I always thought that surgery could get messy, but I had no idea it could get as bad as some of the stories from the video. There's no way I'd physically or mentally have what it takes to do this line of work.

[@ipanesm]

the surgeon of story 13 really was honestly incredible, if the story is half as horrible as it was told, he, being at the forefront of it all really kept at it and held it in enough to do his job, respect

[@PenumbralBehemoth]

RE:story 6... I had a foley last year. the idea that the catheter was misplaced is HORRIFYING good god i genuinely pity that person.

[@TheAverageNerd]

Patient here. Ate some bad lunch meat so thought i had food poisoning since it mathed out with everything i was feeling. Well 3 days later i can still barely keep anything down so i go to the hospital, they ask normal questions but can't figure anything out. Decide to do a scan to see if anything is wrong internally to find nothing, and my apendix is hiding. At that point it's decided i go in for exploratory surgery where my apendix is found hiding behind my liver... ruptured. I can only imagine the "oh shit" moment there. Thankfully it seemed to happen while i was in the hospital and there where no complications during recovery, but if i had waited 1 more day that would be a totally different story

[@mildlysinful]

as a central supply worker, I've never seen peppermint oil in our department, but we keep a lot of mastisol

[@kandy9944]

My little girl's a red head and has the highest pain tolerance ever, but if she is in pain, she has to have more than the recommended amount (according to hospital doctors) found this out after a broken bone 🙃

[@ashtonimagine7924]

That chronicle of what I'm titling (with creative license) Old Faithless was so expertly written, it helped me listen to every soggy detail. Masterstroke of a reddit post

[@roryqpotter8242]

I got the parts of my reproductive system that caused periods removed in November. The “oh shit” moment happened as they were prepping me and the anesthesiologist was going through everything I needed pre-op, including the clotting agent I hadn’t received yet to keep me from bleeding out on the table. Mom caught that and ten minutes later, I got my clotting agent. Everything was smooth sailing from there… except that the surgeon realized my clotting factor was in OVERDRIVE post-op. My usual factor was 35%, and I tested at 234% post-op.

[@richardherndon451]

Why did I start this while eating lunch? I wrote this while only on the eye story. It go worse.

[@GiordanDiodato]

Story 13 aka Swamps of Dagobah?

[@richardherndon451]

@@GiordanDiodato yes

[@catwithabat7163]

I feel bad for whatever poor bastard had to cleanup story 13

[@s.a.munknown4300]

Oof. I also started to become conscious during my wisdom teeth removal. I was in and out for a few minutes. They had to cut two of my teeth in half. All I remember is crying and kind of making a pitiful whining noise and the dentist wiping away my tears and trying to comfort me. Not fun but at least I dont have to get my wisdom teeth removed a second time. And luckily I don't really remember what the pain felt like

[@oliverer3]

Props to the dentist for being so compassionate and caring, I realize it's technically part of their job to some degree but it's by no means a given.

[@kiwitintini8]

The swamps of dagoba dude definetely had to have a firm friendship with the guy doing the surgery

[@natashacoffey5227]

When I was about 23 my doctors had a lot of oh shit moments one when they miss diagnosed my gallbladder, literally going to shit and becoming septic and then again when they put me down for the gallbladder removal, and finding out how septic it was, it literally exploded on them and the fact that I kept waking up because I was Hard to put to sleep to say the least they were so concerned about me. They kept me in there after surgery for like three days.

[@ChuUnthor]

10:02 this is a huge freaking point. When our first was born, there were minor complications (basically he got stuck halfway through for a while). Had we not been in a hospital, things would've been much, much more serious.

[@unknowngamer37415]

This was not what I should have picked to listen to before lunch.😂

[@ayoisha4609]

This is what I'm watching while having lunch🤗

[@ayoisha4609]

This is what I'm watching while having lunch🤗

[@levifogelstrom]

I recently had a presedure where they put a probe up the nose and into the stomach. Keep in mind that i was under anesthesia, so my story is all from my mother, who was in the room. As soon as i was out, they began putting in the probe, but they couldn't get it in. They used more force, and suddenly, I started seizing and vomiting lots of blood. My poor mother was still in the room. They needed more people to help out, so i didn't choke or something, so they called a code blue and a bunch of nurses, and doctors came running to my aid. I am kind of glad I had no idea this was happening😅 The recording thing that was in for 24 hours recorded regurgitation 128 times, although for me, this is normal.

[@infinitedeath1384]

18:40.... Holy mother of God, if hell is a real place, then that fluid is where it came from. It's rare that i lose my appetite when i listen to even the goriest stories. But that wasn't gory, that was an abomination and so disgusting, it makes a urine bath seem inviting.

[@crazygymnasticsgirl7572]

I was CRYING on story 13 🤣🤣🤣 horrifying but hilarious 😂

[@indigowulf]

Story 13; good that they quarantined the area. If you think about it- you smell things by your nose gathering particles from the air and analyzing them.... which means if you can smell it, you're breathing it into your lungs. Every patient in every operating room on that floor that night got some of her infection in their wounds, if their doctors could smell it. Gross.

[@moonyollie6977]

"The swamps of Dagobah," line always gets me

[@Just1Nora]

My birth was a bit like story one, but I was extremely premature and Mom's second pregnancy. They had been trying to stop labor all day and finally rushed my mom to the hospital the next town over b/c they had a NICU. They get my mom settled and by a stroke of luck her doctor was sleeping upstairs. The nurse let her know when the doctor was there and scrubbing up and told her she could probably start thinking about pushing soon. This was in ye olden days when the table had a detachable end to remove or drop down to then put in the stirrups. The nurse was just getting ready to detach the table and my mom relaxed, not really even pushing, and Dad said I just kinda squirted out onto the nurses arms like a football pass. By the time the doctor came in I was already on the warmer being dried, suctioned, getting oxygen, etc by like 5 nurses. I was born 3 lbs but quickly dropped a pound and had to stay in the nicu for 6 wks putting it back on to go home. You could hold me in one hand! My first onesie came off a babydoll because nothing else remotely fit. Even the special premie diapers were huge and instead of a receiving blanket I was wrapped in a washcloth. I'm sure the nurse who caught me was sweating bullets about that! 😅

[@Mrs.Fezziwig]

33:39 Well, if that doesn't sound like a missed Ehlers Danlos Syndrome diagnosis, I don't know what does. Repeat dislocations after a primary traumatic event in any joint with the ease of relocating it yourself whether medically or self hit-and-miss-find-what-works taught screams hypermobility. EDS is the main diagnosis with sub-types depending on what combination of genetic defects on collagen genes you have but all of them mean tendons and ligaments don't spring back like normal people. Like a rubber band that eventually gets loose and stays that way, the same happens in the joints of people with EDS. The only real treatment is painkillers and physio, cutting and shortening the affected ligaments is just putting a plaster on a kitchen knife stab wound.

[@gardenofsn5955]

I have an appointment with my doc soon and I'm going to be asking about how one might test for EDS! I'd always known I was flexible, and I never did find a way to actually *stretch* at the gym because it feels like none of it strains my muscles. Only recently did I hear about springy skin being a potential symptom, and I was like "... I thought that was normal". Compared with my spouse a couple weeks ago, and his hand freaked me out because I can't just pinch the skin, it's like.... all his meat under there. I'm obese, also, so it's not that I'm thin and have the extra skin! I know the likelihood of it being a form of EDS is super duper low, but I've been searching for answers to my chronic pain since I was 13/14 and I'm not stopping now!

[@Mrs.Fezziwig]

@@gardenofsn5955 Well, look up the Beighton Score is the first thing. It's not used as a diagnostic tool anymore but is still an indicator that you can present to your GP or Primary physician I think you call it in the USA. Then there's the tedious but important journalling your symptoms. Yes, it's a pain in the arse however your doctor is more likely to take you seriously if you can present them with evidence. No one is going to spend so much effort unless they are in pain and want to be heard. It's as easy as listing the date, how tired you felt upon waking on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being 'I want to cry because everything is too much effort' and 5 being 'someone slipped me coke in my sleep and I feel like I can fly', then your pain level on the same kind of scale in the morning and then before bed, with any acute pain events such as a sprain or bad twinge or sublux. Also add in any times you got a 'head rush', like if you stand then have to pause because you feel like you might faint and have to wait for it to pass. Tell them to refer you to a Rheumatologist. I stress the word tell because asking will allow for them to try and gaslight you into believing there's nothing wrong, just because your blood tests, CT scans and MRIs come back clear. You mention it started at 13/14, which is bang on the normal time the symptoms begin to be more noticeable; I got a horrifically painful back at 14 that was my first indicator. There's no definitive test bar a genetic one to clarify which type of EDS you have and from what I've heard it's almost always refused by insurance so you have to pay out of pocket. I only know that from American friends as mine was done by the NHS. Sorry if none of this is what you hoped to hear. It's a literal battle of the wills to get that diagnosis between you and the frontline doctor unless they happen to have heard of it. In my case I got an appointment with the only GP in my practice after seeing the other 5 and being fobbed off and I was willing to be arrested if necessary because I wasn't leaving until someone gave me something for the pain. That got the attention of the doctor I was due to see, so he promised he'd give my records a thorough review and then booked me in to see him again in a week, and gave me low dose Tramadol which was like a miracle to me as I slept the night through. It turned into hell so avoid that drug at all costs. Feel free to comment on one of my silly home videos if you want to talk more. I do have Insta too just let me know 😊

[@kristahathaway9308]

Yeah the poop one going everywhere that's what happens when infection and poop come together it's nasty it's worse than the smell death

[@deborahoates6893]

Story 24, sorry to out do you but I was sick since birth. Doctors never could figure out why. At 10 years old, I was admitted for testing. They found my gallbladder probably never functioned correctly and was full of gallstones. Spent a week in the hospital after surgery because this was done in 1968.

[@labyrinthgirl17]

Years ago, I have a feeling that the surgeons had an oh crap moment when they opened my mom up and found that part of her bowels had ruptured from blockage caused by a basketball sized tumor growing from her ovary.

[@Flip_Tech_Official]

I’m mortified by that Dagobah-esc story. I have a story too but not as gruesome as that. I had broken my wrist when I was in high and the x-ray only showed one fracture until the surgeon opened me up and realized that I had another break in my wrist. Both right on the growth plate(for you medical professionals you know it as the distal radius) he told my mom after surgery and she told me a few hours after the anesthesia wore off and I literally said Oh crap and the surgeon said that he agreed when I went to my follow up appointment to get plans for hand and wrist rehab which was painful. I have little to no grip in my fingers and the plate and screws were supposed to come out a year after surgery but only if it was giving me issues. I still have the plate and screws. My fingers love to rest on top of each other like you’d see it on toes but that’s just what i get for having a bad fracture. The only great thing about this whole story is that my hand rehab specialist was a close friend we didn’t realize we knew from my grade school

[@s.h.6858]

Surgery story: my mother had the lens replacement surgery. They told her no drink or food. She followed it. THEY have her pills and water just before the surgery. And, of course, she threw up during it. Not always the patient's fault.

[@noangel888]

The perirectal abscess is the best. Just the way the narrator told and the OP wrote it. Sounds like an audio book

[@sandrawm_]

We need more doctor stories

[@Damy-t4v]

The Swamps of Dagobah one... Oh my God and all that is Holy. I almost threw up from just reading that. In fact, I could still feel my stomach spinning a good 10 minutes after. Mad props to all medical staff who experience things like these and still manage to heal us. Oh my Heavens.

[@deredd04]

Show of hands. Who else was caught off guard by the chicken story?

[@StormyxBoi]

I was terrified when they said euthanized then i died when i found out it was a chicken 😂

[@Lavendeer201]

🤚

[@deredd04]

@@StormyxBoi yeah. And you can tell the narrator felt the same until the reveal. I was literally like “god dammit. Got me too”

[@s.h.6858]

Not a red head but hypermobility (possibly undiagnosed EDS). Pain killers and anesthesia either don't work or work oddly on me. Really hard to get doctors to take it seriously.

[@LoveValentineXO]

That's "swamps of dagobah" story just. Kept. GOING.

[@KingBYummy95]

Poor kid with the dislocated shoulder

[@Jerry_the_Head]

Story 1 just reminded me of that scene from "Big Fish" when Ed is birthed, and he gets LAUNCHED out like a cannonball before just sliding on the ground til' a nurse catches him. You dunno how hard i was laughing at that exact scene.

[@RedHeadForester]

I got the perfect advert at the perfect time. 😂 During the catheter story, just as the catheter is about to be removed... 🎵"Today this could beee, the greatest day of our lives!"🎵 Had me cackling so hard I went into a coughing fit!

[@pupdawn]

Ah, the swamps of dagobah. Classic

[@adrian_k9195]

6:29 Operating in surgical gowns during heat waves is NO JOKE. I work in dental care and we've extracted wisdom teeth during very warm weather. I do have to add that those take like maybe about an hour in total and I am also a very cold person (because of chronic illness) but even I wanted to throw up and faint. I can't imagine being someone who sweats normally under normal circumstances...

[@saltycanadian6190]

I’ve done biohazard cleans in cars after accidents. Some interesting smells. I tried peppermint oil for a long time, not really as effective as a miller welder part number 40.039.0005 respirator with a wonder waffer air fresheners in the air intake ports. This is a great great way to stick your head into some nasty smells for hours at a time.

[@iluvspongebob1234]

UnderSparked: A lot of medical words in here. I did my best. Me: …I sometimes forget that this stuff isn’t actually common knowledge and that most people don’t know what these words mean.

[@gardenofsn5955]

Yeah one of the stories early on was going over things like they were on ELI5 and I was like "don't... people know this?" Guess you never know though!

[@Eevee_133]

You just had to remind me about the “swamps of dagobah” story. Thanks…

[@backwardsangels]

I love how were all surprised to hear the Swamps of Dagobah story lmao

[@cra0cristal]

My "OH CRAP" moment as a patient: I was having my uterus removed (hysterectomy) under general anesthesia. Well, I just woke up, feeling suffocated. Completely paralized, including the diaphragm. So obviously I couldn't breathe for myself, which is why people have to be intubated during general anesthesia. The thing is, I WASN'T YET INTUBATED. So my mind was like "OH CRAP did I stop breathing before the right time?! Why?? Oh crap, I can't warn them! Oh crap, they didn't even notice, they're talking amenities! OH CRAP THE SURGEON IS STARTING THE INCISION AND I AM NOT BREATHING! OH CRAP I NEED AIR!" they only noticed something was off because the less oxygen I had, the faster my heart beat. Someone said "hey, the heart monitor!" (It was beeping like crazy, probably over 120bpm) then I passed out again and the surgery continued as normal lol That kind of gave me a sort of trauma, like I knew then I wasn't going to die, but it felt so close to dying of suffocation... Oh, and I had sleep apnea until a month ago. Sometimes I would dream I was drowning, only to wake up and find out I really wasn't breathing well during sleep. Felt the same. Last month I finally had a surgery to fix my nose and all went well, but I warned the doctors: "PLEASE DON'T LET ME WAKE UP DURING SURGERY!". So there it is. Breathing is important :)

[@chezperky]

I’m pretty sure Oh crap is the last thing you’d want to hear in the OR and now we have an entire hour of it

[@PvMhijden]

NAAAA THE CHICKEN STORY GOT ME. I was like... What?! Ow fuck 😅

[@Anon_Omis]

I started to hear that one story, recognized it, and decided to fast forward since I'm about to have lunch.

[@IsYitzach]

Story 46, the sides of a triangle are usually called legs.

[@DrCarlBooze]

Wow the penicetmy one is crazy I was a Army medic for 8 years and never even heard about anyone with penile cancer until this morning when I found out my stepfather just passed from penis cancer that even after having his penis removed spread to his throat and was fatal. He died this morning and hearing about it the same day is crazy what a horrible way to go.

[@ayoisha4609]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@ayoisha4609]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@maxcompasityreached2488]

There should be a mod where you try to play a game while the text and voiceover is all there blocking your vision

[@timogeerties3487]

"There is no Yoda" 😂😂😂 I spit my juice over my keyboard!

[@MistressHorrors]

That one with the asshole unleashing hell on earth is a classic. I think if I ever got Alzheimer's, I'd forget almost everything, but I will surely remember THAT story

[@RHTQ1]

Oh dear Lord almighty, bless the souls mentioned in 13. Perhaps the 'temporary high' was a gift from above, but gracious, that's some dedication right there. I cannot even imagine.

[@MikeD56034]

13...OMG just really does not begin to cover what you had to describe. I found myself blinking as fast as i could so my brain would not have time to create that scene mentally...well...even with the hot wheels racing in the background...your powers of descriptive reading still conjured something worse than i ever thought possible...

[@DraccoKnightblade]

Had a good one myself; Obligatory not a surgeon, I was the patient. A few years back I really hadn't been feeling well, went to the ER and turns out I had an acute case of pancreatitis caused by gal stones breaking up and blocking the bile duct. The pain was...horrible. Like, horrible enough that a pregnant woman who was having labour contractions and a dude who was literally holding his severed hand in a plastic bag that was over ice, all said "Jesus, I can't imagine that pain!" I dunno if it was to make me feel better but...either way, bad all around. Spent Canada Day weekend in the ICU on IV drips and enough pain killers to sedate an army of Keith Richards clones, then once it was cleared, they sent me on my way because a hoity-toity surgeon thought that I was an alcoholic, could be the -only- explanation for how this happened when I wasn't even 30 yet. For context: I don't drink aside from the occasional beer with friends, and that's rare at best. So, I get put on a wait list to see a surgeon, the whole time, I'm driving back and forth to work (222km round trip there and back btw) while enduring more and more attacks and getting paler and paler. Finally, I get a hold of someone at my doctors office and they inform me that the surgeon is on vacation and won't be back until October that year! This is early August at this point btw, the original attack was June 29th and lasted until July 4th. So, the doctors office got me in with another surgeon who was outside of my local area, I go see him, whiter than tissue paper. I sit down in his office, he looks at me and just has this expression of 'uh oh' and asks me if I'm okay. I say "Sure....Um, can I have your garbage bin?" He hands it to me and I immediately start vomiting black and red stuff and he literally says "Oh...crap~" Asks me how long that's been happening and I said on and off for three weeks. He gets me an emergency MRI at the hospital and gets me an operating theatre in under 6 hours. (which is really damn fast for where I am from!) Next day? I'm in surgery to get this damned thing outta me. I woke up a few hours later and the surgeon is standing by the end of my bed, he comes to talk with me and pats me on the shoulder. He says "I'm glad to see you looking better, you've got colour in your cheeks again!" I was so stoned on pain killers and anaesthesia I just smiled and said "Good" He then says "I'm glad we got you in when we did, if we didn't get that out of you today, we might not be having this conversation at all!" And I, again, high as a kite just smiled and said "Oh, that's cool~" He wished me well, I thanked him, and then on the drive home I realized he had told me 'oh btw, you could have DIED there' . Turns out my gal bladder, which normally is about the size of someone's pinky or thumb, roughly...was the size of my fist. So think a good sized soda can. He was amazed that it hadn't ruptured already. They had to take it out in pieces! So yeah, got some new scars, and a hell of a 'fun' story for my own "Oh crap" moment for myself, and the surgeon!

[@whatintheheck4692]

I heard my doctor’s oh crap moment. I was delivering my twins via c-section and I heard the doctor call out “I need a coagulant to stop this bleeding right now” …3 minutes later the doctor yells “WHERE IS THAT COAGULANT??” The next day, the doctor came into my room and explained that while I lost a lot of blood, I didn’t quite need a transfusion, so that’s good.

[@painta76]

Pretty sure i saw the perianal abcess and there not being any peppermint oil on a medical drama.

[@Invidia1988]

Not an surgeon story but - The "swamps of Dagobah" story is precisely the reason I keep a bottle of peppermint in my homes now. I've had to use that bottle during one of my jobs where traffic control is the grunt work for road construction. I got sent to a sewage treatment facility they were doing a trench in the asphalt that needed replacing. This was during covid times so we had reasons to have masks. When I learned where I was being sent to, I told my work "I need to go home for something." I grabbed that bottle and doused my mask. It barely cut the scent of that location. I was sent to was equal to Labyrinth's bog of eternal stench. There are certain areas of the facility where it is "less" bad. But I was outside their sludge room... and near the skimmers... where it is more pungent... Peppermint oil will make you cough alot because of the saturation of oil to your lungs, I had to reapply the oil like 9 times.. But that story makes me keep a bottle in my car somewhere for "just in case unholy smells." I went home after my shift cursed my work for sending me there and told them to send me chasing a saw truck instead of THAT. Treat your flaggers with respect people. They literally experience the brunt of everything.

[@infinitedeath1384]

Because of this, if I ever had to lose any senses, it'd be my sense of smell.

[@janaeguillaume4105]

Your narration made me nauseous. It definitely did it justice. I could never imagine having to experience that story a second time.

[@drakhan6287]

My sister had a colonoscopy when she was about 9. She was out for 12 hours, 10 more then she should have been. The doctors were panicing because NOTHING was waking her up, mum asked a doctor if she could try something. He must have though "what the hell, nothing else is working" and told my mum go-ahead. My mother, not a weak woman by any means, uncovered my sisters feet, reared her hand back and gave my sister a full stenght slap on her foot. Apparently my sister sat bult upright, nearly giving the doctor a heart attack. She also had an severe allergic reaction to her meds after, her through closed in about 30 minutes, so the doctors must have though she was cursed or something. This isn't even her only "oh crap" medical moment, just one of the funnier ones to me.

[@andromededp5316]

Foley catheters are so annoying, I had one for 6 days after a surgery and for some reason they wouldn’t use a catheter bag with it so we had to go to the restroom and open a valve at the end of the catheter to empty our bladders. I was so glad when they finally removed it

[@meltedfroyo6979]

How dare y'all make me hear the Swamps of Dagobah story CASUALLY 😭

[@tamamo3964]

I let out an audible "OH NO" as soon as I heard the first sentence of Dagobah.

[@whitearabianhorses]

I’m sorry, but your expression of, “. . . and there was no Yoda.” makes me smile. I know the whole thing was awful, but the way you tell it is great!

[@Franimus]

Never ever lie to your doctor, lawyer, or priest!

[@Myglowupisinsideout]

Why would you lie to a priest? He can neither bless nor curse you that is GOD'S job alone. People who go to confession are there to ADMIT things

[@Franimus]

@@Myglowupisinsideout If you don't make a good (honest) confession, then the absolution is invalid, so you went to confession for nothing.

[@demonanastasiswonderland]

Absolutely lie to your priest. Your safety is more important than adhering to a religion. Lie to survive, and hang on until you can escape the religious environment to live your life freely as you truly are. There are people outside the religion who don't think you're a monster just for existing. It gets better.

[@Franimus]

@@demonanastasiswonderland No, that's stupid. I'm not talking about cults. You have no idea what religion or faith actually is.

[@Just1Nora]

Tell your doctor and lawyer everything, and the cops only what they need to know.

[@W1nstreak]

Story 13 made me pee and almost throw up. Good narration man!

[@thatcherbuck]

This one was so good. So many great (and terrible) stories

[@winnerwannabe9868]

Parents go in for check and find out I'm choking myself to death on my umbilical cord.

[@leshyaedawnfire]

First story: The parents must be hardcore fans of The Addams Family Values.

[@gardenofsn5955]

LMAO "It's a boy that we definitely didn't almost drop! What do you wanna name him" ":) Pugsly" ".... OK!"